pass quotes

Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Lamentations1:12.

And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke16:26.

She may very well pass for forty-three In the dusk with a light behind her!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Trial by  Jury.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show toany fellow-creature, let me doit now†for Ishall not pass this way again.

-Grellet, Stephen
Attributed.

Adieu,Farewell, itcame witha lass, it will passwith a lass.

-JamesV
  Said on his deathbed,14 Dec, on hearing of the birth of his daughter Mary, referring to the Crown of Scotland passing from the Stewarts. Quoted in Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie (c.1532^1580)  The Historie and Cronicles of Scotland (published 1728), vol.1.

Hood an ass with reverend purple, So you can hide his two ambitious ears, And he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.

-Jonson, Ben
  Volpone, act1, sc.3.

The world isaglobal campus,Hilary, you'd betterbelieve it. The American Express card has replaced the library pass.

-Lodge, David John
  Small World, pt.1, ch.2.

They shall not pass. See Ibarruri Gomez 427:31.

-Pe¤  tain, (Henri) Philippe
This phrase came to symbolize the stubborn defence ofVerdun against Ludendorf's siege, which cost 300,000 German and 400,000 French troops.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

-Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro
  Reginald,'Reginald at the Carlton'.

There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'The Lotos^Eaters', Choric Song, stanza1, l.46^51.

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